Senior Manager, Territory Sales (Based in Tokyo)

Cloudflare

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.  At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. AVAILABLE LOCATIONS * Tokyo, Japan ABOUT THE ROLE Partner Account Managers, Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations – all working together help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great internet-enabled experiences. The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real, technical problems while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free service to millions in our community. RESPONSIBILITIES * What you'll do * We are looking for an experienced Senior Partner Account Manager to join the Japan Partner Sales team to drive sales plays and go-to-market strategy with our partners across Japan. * In this role, you’ll develop and execute strategies to drive adoption and revenue growth with partners throughout Japan. You will lead the development of joint business plans, manage partner driven pipeline, and joint co-sell opportunities, work with senior partner stakeholders to align on mutual growth objectives, and ensure partners have the resources and support needed to drive partner-sourced revenue. * As a Senior Partner Account Manager, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing key partner relationships across the region, including driving the full sales lifecycle from opportunity registration to deal closure. You will influence partners’ go-to-market strategies, manage and optimize partner incentive programs, and collaborate closely with internal teams to achieve revenue targets and strategic goals. * Strategy & Planning: Develop and execute strategies to achieve partner and sales organization goals, including go-to-market initiatives and sales plays. This will also include collaboration with sales teams on joint partner territory planning and alignment to maximize partner-sourced revenue. * Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong business and technical relationships with strategic partners (resellers, GSIs, MSPs) and internal teams. * Sales Execution: Manage and drive partner pipeline, co-sell opportunities, and new customer engagements to generate CF driven revenue and market adoption. * Value Creation: Advise sales teams and customers on the value of partner engagement, helping to create and launch new bundles and offerings. * Enablement & Growth: Create and drive enablement plans, including advanced training and certifications for both sales and technical teams and support partner market expansion in new verticals and geographies. * Business Reviews: Prepare and deliver regular business reviews to leadership, presenting metrics, progress, and overall business health. * Managing partner programs, including MDF, SPIFF, and other incentive programs, to drive growth and success. * AI-Enabled: Embed AI tools and workflows across the partner lifecycle and raise the bar for how Cloudflare and our partners work together in an AI-first way. Coach partners to evolve their joint planning, technical enablement, and customer engagement motions alongside ours. DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND EXPERIENCE * 8+ years of experience in partner management, SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, or Security sales and channel management. * Proven track record of developing and executing strategies that drive partner-sourced revenue and business growth. * A keen sense of ownership, drive, and ability to deliver in ambiguity * Experience working with senior-level executives within partner organizations to align on business objectives and drive results. * Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and security solutions. * Expertise in partner programs, including tiered partner structures and managing partner incentives like MDF and SPIFF. * Ability to manage complex, global partner relationships and influence partner strategies. * Strong communication and presentation skills, capable of engaging with senior executives and internal stakeholders. * Experience in leading cross-functional teams, mentoring junior team members, and driving collaborative initiatives across multiple departments. * Ability to travel up depending on business needs. What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process. This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license. Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

Zscaler

About Zscaler Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability. We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity. Role   We are looking for a Channel Sales Leader to join our Alliances & Channels team. This is a role reporting directly to the Sr. Director, Alliances and Channels, Japan. In this role, you will be at the forefront of driving our partner ecosystem—aligning our channel strategy with corporate goals, empowering a high-performing team, and enabling our partners to successfully position the Zscaler portfolio. You will act as a key strategic leader, working closely with field sales and focused partners to expand capabilities, reduce channel friction, and deliver consistent, incremental business growth across Japan. WHAT YOU’LL DO (ROLE EXPECTATIONS) * Drive Channel Strategy: Develop, manage, and execute a robust, creative, and highly effective channel strategy and go-to-market plan aligned to regional growth priorities with our sales leadership. * Lead & Mentor: Lead and mentor the regional channel sales team in the development of territory channel plans alongside local sales teams, ensuring concrete action plans and a regular cadence of performance reviews. * Build Executive Relationships: Develop and drive deep engagement through highly successful relationships with key channel partners at the senior management and executive levels. * Accelerate Pipeline & Revenue: Drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline and revenue growth through joint go-to-market initiatives and targeted sales plays with focused partners. * Optimize Partner Coverage: Partner with local channel sales teams to analyze partner coverage across Japan, identify whitespace or gaps, support strategic recruitment, and drive enablement. * Evangelize Best Practices & Reduce Friction: Set and drive channel best practices, remaining sensitive to local market specifics. Implement strategies to reduce friction in the Japan sales channel and continually increase the ease of doing business with Zscaler. * Enable the Channel: Empower the partner community to sell Zscaler solutions across the entire portfolio, expanding partner capability through solution positioning, certified resources, and business-value messaging. * Execute Marketing & Value Propositions: Plan, develop, and execute strategic marketing initiatives. Play a pivotal role in creating executive-level Zscaler value propositions for target partners and developing localized channel sales collateral. * Track, Measure, & Report Success: Establish, implement, and evaluate key channel metrics to measure performance (revenue, pipeline growth, product mix). Present Japan channel sales performance and business results through quarterly business reviews (QBRs), accurate forecasting, and management reports. WHO YOU ARE (SUCCESS PROFILE) * You Act Like an Owner: Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You bring a strategic mindset paired with a proven ability to develop, execute, and deliver on defined business plans. You operate with unwavering personal integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. * You Are a High-Trust Collaborator: You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You have exceptional cross-functional leadership skills and thrive in matrix-managed organizations. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback to build consensus and earn trust across internal teams and partner organizations. * You Are Customer-Obsessed: You build deep empathy for both internal sales teams and external partners. You anchor your decisions in solving real-world problems and reducing channel friction, knowing that partner success directly translates to customer success. * You Are a Pragmatic Builder: You are agile, independent, and accustomed to delivering results in a fast-paced environment. You prioritize effectively, exercise excellent judgment when resolving difficult issues, and balance high-level strategy with hands-on execution. * You Think at Scale: You connect your day-to-day regional channel initiatives to the larger company mission. You build partner solutions, processes, and teams that are not just effective today, but are built to last and support a high-growth, global cloud-security organization. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS) * 12+ years of extensive experience in channel sales, partner management, alliances, or ecosystem development within cybersecurity, cloud, networking, or enterprise software. * Proven people leadership experience with a track record of success in leading, mentoring, and growing successful channel sales teams in Japan. * Demonstrated success driving partner pipeline, revenue contribution, and executing strategic partner business plans using clear metrics and an operating cadence. * Strong network and understanding of the partner ecosystem, distribution models, and key channel players across Japan. * Executive Presence: Proven ability to engage, influence, and form strategic partnerships with executive stakeholders, sales leaders, and technical teams within partner organizations. WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS) * Bilingual Fluency: Business-level proficiency in both written and spoken English and Japanese. * Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of cloud security, Zero Trust architecture, SASE, data protection, and secure AI adoption trends. * Value-Based Selling: Demonstrated ability to connect complex cloud technology solutions directly to high-level customer business outcomes and deliver impact quickly.   #LI-JK3 #LI-Hybrid   At Zscaler, we are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and the customers we work with. We foster an inclusive environment that values all backgrounds and perspectives, emphasizing collaboration and belonging. Join us in our mission to make doing business seamless and secure. Our Benefits program is one of the most important ways we support our employees. Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages, including: * Various health plans * Time off plans for vacation and sick time * Parental leave options * Retirement options * Education reimbursement * In-office perks, and more! Learn more about Zscaler's hybrid working model and benefits here. By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines. Zscaler is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. See more information by clicking on the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal link. Pay Transparency Zscaler complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules. Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.

Mirakl

About Mirakl:   Founded in 2012, Mirakl has been at the forefront of marketplace innovation, empowering every business to compete in the platform economy. Today, Mirakl’s operating system combines an enterprise marketplace solution (Mirakl Platform) that enables retailers and B2B organizations to launch, scale, and operate marketplaces and dropship, AI-powered multichannel selling (Mirakl Connect), retail media (Mirakl Ads) and an agentic commerce infrastructure (Mirakl Nexus). With dual headquarters in Boston and Paris, Mirakl helps a global ecosystem of 450+ marketplaces (B2C and B2B) and a network of over 100k third-party marketplace sellers. Brands like Macy’s, Decathlon, Carrefour, Asos, and Airbus Helicopters use Mirakl to grow their businesses in new and remarkable ways.   For more information, visit www.mirakl.com.   Mirakl in Numbers: * 🗓️ Founded in 2012 | Member of French Tech Next40 * 👥 750+ employees in 9 offices worldwide: Paris, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Boston, London, Munich, New York, Sydney, Tokyo   Our Values: Working at Mirakl means accelerating your career alongside ambitious, passionate, and supportive colleagues. We're proud of the diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences that make our teams unique.   Our 5 values guide how we collaborate: * 💡 Work Hard Together: Teamwork and collaboration are the foundation of our success * 🏆 Get Things Done:  We prioritize action and efficiency for impactful results * 🚀 Go Above & Beyond:  We tackle challenges proactively and always aim for excellence * 🎓 Succeed Through Expertise: Knowledge sharing and continuous learning are core to our culture * 🤝 Satisfy & Empower Clients: We're committed to our clients' success   SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE – MIRAKL ADS   1. THE TEAM YOU'LL JOIN You'll be part of our AMER Ads team led by Octavie Gosselin, VP Ads. The team consists of 5 professionals covering the AMER region. Together, you'll be empowering businesses to monetise their ecommerce traffic across both marketplace and first-party offerings, while delivering greater value to advertisers, marketplace sellers, and publishers.   2. YOUR IMPACT * Own quota attainment across your AMER territory by developing and executing a structured, repeatable go-to-market sales strategy for Mirakl Ads, focused on new customer acquisition within the retailer and marketplace operator segment * Drive the full end-to-end sales cycle (typically 5–9 months) across all stages: prospecting and outbound engagement, discovery and business case development, technical validation with Solutions Engineering, commercial negotiation with procurement and legal, and contract closure * Build deep expertise in Mirakl Ads and act as a trusted advisor on retail media monetisation strategies, sponsored product mechanics, and advertiser ROI — positioning Mirakl's differentiators against competing retail media solutions * Navigate complex retailer organisations to build and maintain senior-level relationships with the key decision-makers driving retail media initiatives, including Chief Digital Officers, VP/Heads of eCommerce, Heads of Retail Media or Monetisation, and CMOs * Own and grow a healthy, multi-stage pipeline by partnering closely with Solutions Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and Legal to accelerate deal progression and ensure a smooth transition to onboarding post-signature   3. WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE ROLE Experience: * Proven sales track record in ad-tech, retail media, or SaaS solutions, with consistent quota over-achievement * Deep understanding of the marketplace and advertising ecosystem, including DSPs, ad servers, APIs, and data-driven advertising solutions * Demonstrated ability to prioritise pipeline and accelerate sales cycles to meet quarterly targets * Experience navigating complex B2B sales situations requiring ROI demonstration and solution-selling approaches Skills: * Strategic sales planning * Retail media expertise * Solution selling * Stakeholder management * Pipeline management   4. TOOLS USED * CRM: Salesforce * Sales intelligence: LinkedIn Sales Navigator * Sales enablement: Confluence * Conversation intelligence: Gong * AI assistant: Dust * Workflow automation: N8N   5. OUR HIRING PROCESS We warmly encourage you to apply to any of our roles, even if you think you're not an exact match. Please click the "Apply" button to submit your application — this helps us make the best possible assessment and get back to you as quickly as possible. Here's what to expect: 1. Introductory call – An initial screen with one of our recruiters to discuss your background and motivations, and to answer your questions about Mirakl Ads, the team, and the role 2. Hiring Manager interview – Meet the hiring manager to discuss your experience, problem-solving approach, and impact, including an exploration of how you succeed through expertise 3. Values interviews – Meet with 3 team members from different functions to explore your alignment with our core values and ways of working 4. Sales pitch exercise – Present to a panel composed of the hiring team members who have interviewed you throughout the process 5. Final decision & offer – We consolidate feedback quickly and aim to share decisions without delay. If successful, we'll walk you through the offer details, benefits, and next steps   📍 This role is based in Boston or New York. We offer hybrid and fully remote contracts. Below you will find the reasonably estimated annual On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for this role. OTE reflects total target compensation, reflective of base salary and variable compensation (e.g., commission or bonus). Your starting compensation within this range will be based on your relevant skills, experience, and education, with any future adjustments informed by role scope, performance, and internal pay equity. In addition, Mirakl offers a wide range of competitive benefits including health, dental, 401(k) match plan, commuter, and PTO. Find out more about our benefits here. OTE Pay Range $247,500—$313,500 USD We welcome collaborators with their diverse perspectives and experiences to power us forward. These often far exceed conventional job requirements and help us create a culture of continuous learning. If you’re ready to join a global leader powering digital transformation for 450+ of the world’s most innovative retailers and B2B organizations. As part of our recruitment process, Mirakl processes your personal data to review and manage your application and, where appropriate, to consider your profile for future opportunities. You can exercise your data protection rights at any time, and as further detailed in our policies. For more information about how we process your personal data and your rights, please consult our Recruitment Privacy Notice, here in English and here in French.  We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to help streamline our hiring process, including screening applications, analyzing resumes, and assessing responses. While AI helps us work efficiently, all final hiring decisions are made by humans. For more information, visit our AI Guidelines for Candidates and Interviews.